Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that , in spite of the noise of the birds , I would have heard a hammer going down there along the cliffs . |
| 2 | AFTER THEY HAD WRITTEN ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ , a plugger called Guy Holmes — who may or may not have heard the song working out at the Putney gym , the Dance Attic , which Fred managed and Richard worked at — got interested . |
| 3 | He may have heard the cow moaning as she gave birth , his ears sensitized to noises the rest of us would not have heard , as we sat talking and laughing around the fire . |
| 4 | You may have dismissed the Japanese exercising before work or the Chinese performing their Tai Chi routines , but when you have undertaken a few exercise disciplines yourself you will admire their dedication . |
| 5 | It would n't have stopped the rope going round their necks ! ’ |
| 6 | If Aschmann becomes unable to perform — as a result of your deliberately destructive influence — I would at once have to issue a statement making it plain that from now on I disassociate myself entirely from the Hochhauser Season . ’ |
| 7 | Of course , had the guilds and fraternities included a handling charge in their reckoning they might have attracted an income allowing them the freedom to purchase for themselves those ‘ extras ’ now being clamoured for . |
| 8 | Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR ’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position . |
| 9 | I do n't know what possessed me to do so but I started twitching the squid like I would have done a deadbait piking when suddenly the rod thumped over ! |
| 10 | The plan to limit entitlement under the green form scheme may result in detained people who would otherwise have secured a discharge remaining on a section . |
| 11 | Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify . |
| 12 | Police want to interview anyone who was in the wine bar on Wednesday evening who may have seen a woman drinking with a man . |
| 13 | The result stood because the referee , after consulting his linesmen , decided that Scott could have seen the ball coming at him . |
| 14 | ‘ He might have seen the knight standing on the parapet , crept up , placed the pole there , and somehow or other arranged for the tocsin to be sounded . ’ |
| 15 | Anyone who saw the woman 's silver-coloured Fiesta on Saturday or who may have seen the man thumbing a lift in the Northwich area , should contact Greater Manchester Police on 061 871 5050 . |
| 16 | ‘ Happy Game ’ , for instance , has a chorus about celebrating the end of an unhappy relationship , a state of affairs that in ‘ Immigrants … ’ days would have seen the band crying their guitars out at high speed for three minutes or so . |
| 17 | Had he looked further back he would have seen the referee waving play on , having overruled the linesman . |
| 18 | And then , as the escalator carried him up into the main concourse of the station , they 'd have seen the spark returning almost like the glow of a neon tube being borne up into a powerful field of energy . |
| 19 | Quinn may have seen the punch coming . |
| 20 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
| 21 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 22 | Perhaps we should have written a chapter explaining our reactions to critics such as Brian Doyle or to books such as Terry Eagleton 's Criticism and Ideology ( 1976 ) , but I doubt whether the Working Group would have easily reached agreement . |
| 23 | Women ratepayers , married or unmarried , had long been permitted to sit on urban and rural district councils and parish councils , so that during the late 1890s the number of women holding elected office in local government ( including Poor Law and school board work ) may well have exceeded the number holding office today . |
| 24 | This success also gave City their first League double of the season , but it was a little ironical that in a game where the respective goalkeepers played a prominent part in keeping it goalless for 70 minutes , an error by the Halesowen custodian should have produced the match winning goal . |
| 25 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 26 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 27 | You must have opened a file using OPENOUT , OPENIN or OPENUP before you use this statement . |
| 28 | Before you use this statement , you must have opened a file using OPENOUT or OPENUP . |
| 29 | But in Locke 's day it was normal and Locke 's contemporaries I think would have had no problem understanding this what he meant . |
| 30 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |